Víctor Andrés García Belaúnde (born 6 June 1949, in Lima), is a Peruvian lawyer and politician belonging to the Popular Action and a former Congressman representing Lima between 2006 and 2019. He was president of the Popular Action from 2004 to 2009.
At the end of the Fujimori dictatorship, Víctor García was AP's presidential candidate for the 2000 general election without considerable success, placing ninth with 0.4% of the vote and Fujimori was subsequently re-elected in the runoff that was marred by electoral fraud.
Congressman
In the 2006 general election, García Belaúnde was elected Congressman representing Lima for the 2006–2011 term on the Center Front ticket, assembled by AP, We Are Peru and National Coordinator of Independents party. In Congress, he was the speaker of the Parliamentary Alliance, a joint group of Center Front, Possible Peru and, initially, the National Restoration Party lawmakers. In the 2011 general election, he was re-elected on the list of the Possible Peru Alliance, where his Popular Action party has now integrated. He was again re-elected in the 2016 general election and left office in 2019 following to the dissolution of the Congress by Martín Vizcarra. In 2017, he questioned the addendum to the Chinchero airport contract, as, in his opinion, it was harmful to the interests of the State.[1] In this regard, he had a strong controversy with the then Vice President and Minister of Transport and Communications Martín Vizcarra, whom he described as a "sell-out country".[2] In 2018, he ran for the presidency of Congress, leading a multiparty alliance that wanted to curb the hegemony of Fujimorism in the Board of Directors, but lost with a difference of 14 votes to Daniel Salaverry.[3]
Party politics
From 2002 to 2003 he was vice president, of the Popular Action party and from January 2004 to May 2009 he became the president of the Popular Action party.
